There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
SAMUEL GOMPERSThe right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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Let social busybodies and professional “public morals experts” in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.
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The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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The right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.
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The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say the things which displease.
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To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.
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So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.
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To free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.
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There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
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You can’t do it unless you organize.
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Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion
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